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BURY

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Irregular inflected form: buried   

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Dismiss from the mind; stop remembering

Example:

I tried to bury these unpleasant memories

Synonyms:

bury; forget

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "bury"):

unlearn (try to forget; put out of one's memory or knowledge)

repress; suppress (put out of one's consciousness)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE

Sense 2

Meaning:

Place in the earth and cover with soil

Example:

They buried the stolen goods

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "bury" is one way to...):

deposit; fix; posit; situate (put (something somewhere) firmly)

"Bury" entails doing...:

cover (provide with a covering or cause to be covered)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

burial (concealing something under the ground)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Embed deeply

Example:

He buried his head in her lap

Synonyms:

bury; sink

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "bury" is one way to...):

embed; engraft; imbed; implant; plant (fix or set securely or deeply)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "bury"):

countersink; set (insert (a nail or screw below the surface, as into a countersink))

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something PP

Sense 4

Meaning:

Enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing

Example:

The huge waves swallowed the small boat and it sank shortly thereafter

Synonyms:

bury; eat up; immerse; swallow; swallow up

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "bury" is one way to...):

close in; enclose; inclose; shut in (surround completely)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something

Sense 5

Meaning:

Cover from sight

Example:

Afghani women buried under their burkas

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Hypernyms (to "bury" is one way to...):

conceal; hide (prevent from being seen or discovered)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something from somebody
Somebody ----s something PP

Sense 6

Meaning:

Place in a grave or tomb

Example:

My grandfather was laid to rest last Sunday

Synonyms:

bury; entomb; inhume; inter; lay to rest

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Hypernyms (to "bury" is one way to...):

lay; put down; repose (put in a horizontal position)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Sentence example:

Sam cannot bury Sue

Derivation:

burial (the ritual placing of a corpse in a grave)

Credits

 Context examples: 

But it was not its size that now impressed my companions; it was the knowledge that seven hundred thousand pounds in gold lay somewhere buried below its spreading shadow.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

“I have buried one friend to-day,” he thought: “what if this should cost me another?”

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

I had intended to bury myself in central Africa.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Then shall we bury all cause of unkindness in a flagon of Malvoisie,” said the prince, cheerily.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Research at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota, sheds the first light on the life of a young Rapetosaurus, a titanosaurian sauropod buried in the Upper Cretaceous Maevarano Formation of Madagascar.

(Newly discovered baby Titanosaur sheds light on dinosaurs' early lives, NSF)

The scientists found that these inferred buried ice deposits are correlated with the locations of already detected surface ice.

(The Moon and Mercury May Have Thick Ice Deposits, NASA)

The ridges were active 150 million years ago and are now buried by mile-thick layers of sediment.

(New map uncovers thousands of unseen seamounts on ocean floor, NSF)

Heavy objects like cars sink into the muck, while buried water and sewer pipes rise to the surface.

(NASA Map Reveals a New Landslide Risk Factor, NASA)

"We're continuing to collect data on buried ice on Mars, zeroing in on the best places for astronauts to land."

(NASA's Treasure Map for Water Ice on Mars, NASA)

A NASA glaciologist has discovered a possible second impact crater buried under more than a mile of ice in northwest Greenland.

(NASA Finds Possible Second Impact Crater Under Greenland Ice, NASA)